Criminals, careerists and courtiers at Al Asad Air Base
Shown are POTUS Bush (43), CENTCOM Fallon, and MNFI Petreaus. Not shown, but within the effective range of several anti-personal munitions commonly used in the theater of operations to engage soft targets, are SecDef Gates, CJCS Pace, SecState Rice, NSC Advisor Hadley and Ambassador Crocker.
On calendar are meetings with puppets Nouri al Maliki, Jalal Talabani, Tariq al Hashimi, Adel Abdul Mahdi, and Massoud Barzani. Not on calendar are meetings with non-puppets.
Elsewhere, Pakistani elites are carrying on pretty much as if nothing is forecast that would dampen the political quadrille around the presidential election, which means that neither Musharaff or Bhutto have been briefed that a movement order is pending that would zero out their respective domestic calculations.
